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Chinese Religions; D Howard Smith, Weidenfield and Nicolson, 1968.
The Monastery of Jade Mountain; Peter Goullart, John Murray, 1961.
The Origin of Yuh Hwang, H. Y. Feng, Harvard Journal of Asian Studies, 1936, p. 242-250.
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"Religion in the villages of North China"; Rev. A. J. J. Murray, Religion, No. 16. July 1936, p. 18-25.
Lao T'ien Yeh was one of the titles given to the Jade Emperor in North China.
In Min Hsien in North-West China, where hailstorms are very prevalent during harvest time, peasants used to believe they occurred when the Jade Emperor was angry and the actual hail itself was produced on his instructions by the Mountain Gods.
D. C. Graham, "The Temples of Suifu”, Chinese Recorder, Vol. 61, 1930, p. 108-120.
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"Rural temples around Hsuan Hua", Folklore Studies, XI, 1951.
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op. cit.
The Jade Emperor's heir is very rarely seen on altars, but the author has an image of him, described on the base as "The Imperial Heir" (XRF). See Plate 6.
A. S. Goodrich, "The Peking Temple of the Eastern Peak", Monumenta Serica, (Nagoya) 1964.